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‘We Messed Up’ Organizers Find the Upside of Failure
Since it launched less than two years ago, the “We Messed Up” Initiative has brought together students and faculty to learn about resiliency and growing from failure.
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School of Medicine Scholarship Recipient Dedicated to Serving Local Communities and Fighting Global Health Inequities
For Amanda Wibben, MTS (M’26), the 2023-2024 Lawrence Dean Scholarship winner, cura personalis is about health care providers not only caring for their patients in their entirety, but also confronting their own privilege.
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Could a Georgetown Lab Finding Lead to New Treatment in Pancreatic Cancer?
For the first time, new research by Georgetown scientists shows potential to make immunotherapy effective in pancreatic cancer by combining it with a drug that makes cancer cells more responsive to immunotherapy.
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Interfaith Blessing Highlights the Generosity of Anatomical Donors
Before first-year medical students began their highly anticipated first day of anatomy lab, they paused for an interfaith blessing led by Father James Shea, S.J., Rabbi Daniel Schaefer and Imam Yahya Hendi.
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Staying Hands-on in Hope: For the Future of Pediatric Cancer Research (and Maybe a New Car)
The Hyundai Hands On Hope contest, generously sponsored by the Washington Area Hyundai Dealers, ran January 19 to 21 and featured healthy competition between Georgetown Lombardi and Children’s National.
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Understanding Immunotherapy Resistance Leads to New Therapeutic Strategies — and Hope
Samir Khleif, MD, an immunologist and professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi, is working to understand why some cancers become resistant to immunotherapy, and how that resistance can be overcome.
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Georgetown Lombardi Faculty Members Aim To Improve Lung Cancer Screening and Smoking Cessation Rates by Focusing on Equity in Care
Kathryn Taylor, PhD, professor of oncology, believes she can have no greater impact on reducing the burden of cancer than by focusing on the harms of tobacco use. The work she co-leads with Randi Williams, PhD, assistant professor of oncology, as part of the Lung Screening, Tobacco, and Health (LSTH) research lab at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center is especially impactful on underserved communities, who are often the target of tobacco product marketing.
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The Brelidze Lab: A Story of Collaboration and Scientific Resilience
Tinatin “Tina” Brelidze, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, studies ion channels, membrane proteins involved in many diseases.
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Biomedical Graduate Education Students Make a Difference in the Community
Students who choose the Special Master’s Program in Physiology’s Georgetown Downtown Campus track participate in community service activities throughout the program.
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Family Gift Supports Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance Over the Next Decade
A new gift of $1.5 million to Georgetown University will sustain the efforts of the Health Justice Alliance (HJA), Georgetown’s medical-legal partnership that is training future physicians, lawyers and nurses to collaboratively use the law as a tool to improve health and well-being at the patient, systems, and population levels.
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